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Julie's Caddis
Tied by Jim Dubisz |
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Wing: Bleached deer hair
Body: Deer hair and pale yellow Flyrite
Hackle: Light ginger
Underwing: Pale yellow CDC
Hook: TMC 100 or equivalent #16-#12
Thread: Uni-Thread 8/0 light cahill
Rib: Very fine gold or holographic mylar tinsel
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| Tying Instructions |
- Hook: TMC 100 or equivalent, #16-#12. I tied #14. Use loop eye or
turned-up eye hooks for size 18 and smaller.
- Thread: Danville's 6/0 #8, Yellow, or Uni-Thread 8/0 light cahill. (or...
the fine yellow spool you have somewhere in your materials kit)
- Body: Very fine gold or holographic mylar tinsel tied in at the bend. Tie
in Deer body hair at the bend, Humpy style, to make an underbody. Lay the
hair forward to the 60% point, and tie in, clip and wrap loosely back to
the bend. Do not compress the hair more than 50% of its volume. The purpose
of the underbody is to provide floatation... and it won't float if it's all
mashed down!. Very fine dry-fly dubbing (beaver, or rabbit, or various
synthetics... I used Fly-Rite) dyed or blended to pale yellow. The Deer
underbody will help to create a reverse-tapered body so that the hair wing
isn't forced up by a dramatic shoulder, as in mayfly patterns. Wrap the
tinsel forward, using wraps opposite to the direction the dubbing was
wrapped. Tie off tinsel and clip.
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- Wing: Tie in a clump of CDC as the underwing, preferably pale yellow.
However, if you don't trust dyed CDC to retain the oils (like me) you can
tye in a natural dun CDC. Small clump of blond elk or bleached deer body
hair (no tip marking), length to extend past hook bend by half the hook-gap
distance. Make a sparse wing, so you can easily see the CDC and/or body
through the hair.
- Hackle: Your stiffest light ginger, tied a little on the dense side.
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| ...BTW, this
was my first swap! The mother of all swaps... the great buganza... el
swappo magnifico! |
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| Fishing Tips |
The origin of Julie's Caddis is really quite simple... It is a variant of
A.K. Best's St.Vrain Caddis (Yellow), that I named for my wife in the
optimistic but unrealistic hope that having a small artificial insect named
for her will somehow offset the hours of lost companionship (and the new
Ginger neck and vice... er, I mean vise) that tying for the Caddis Swap
required... no, demanded... (she didn't buy it either!)
The recipe follows (using A.K.'s description from "A.K.'s Flybox", edited
appropriately, or inappropriately, as your inclination requires):
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